In Utero
NirvanaThis is my favorite Nirvana album. It's pure 90s and it's wonderful.
This is my favorite Nirvana album. It's pure 90s and it's wonderful.
Of the The The albums I've heard, this is the one I forgot about.
This is Not My Thing ™
My favorite Beatles solo album, but not the BEST Beatles Solo album.
The only thing that would boost this rating is if this was the album with Billy Joel's Good Song: "You May Be Right"
An absolute perfect post-punk / new wave album from a band that ended up becoming a superstar pop group. This Go-Go’s album is one I pull out and listen to AT LEAST once a year, if not more.
Four stars for two legendary songs (Both "Gimme Shelter" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want" are iconic and wonderful) but on a personal level, I always struggle to get on board with and/or keep my attention on Rolling Stones album cuts.
It was fine.
Oh, I know this one! There was a time when I thought this was scary, then I went through a metal phase and thought it was pretty good, and now I recognize Pantera as a band with a tragic history and a problematic singer and a sound that is very much of its era
It's good! I would never listen to this on the regular, but if it showed up in a playlist I'd recognize it as a Very Good Vibe.
There was a time when it felt like Green Day had lost the plot. Thank god for George Bush: this is often the third best Green Day album if you're an old fan (because Kerplunk still holds those heartstrings) but the best or second best if you're a normal person.
This is my favorite Nirvana album. It's pure 90s and it's wonderful.
I'm pretty excited to see some britpop in here, but this one is One Gigantic Song and a bunch of okay songs.
I love some songs from this album, but I also never think to listen to this album as a whole because there are 1000 songs on it.
This was a great album, it was legitimately surprising at times.
I'm no disco superfan, but this is one of the good ones, because it's got THE FUNK in it. Also: samples and beats that would end up in a million hip hop songs.
Of course it's good. (Not something I'd listen to that often day, though.)
I've never purposefully listened to The The before and ... man, it's really good.
I should like this — it hits some of those Neil Young / Built to Spill vibes that I go for — but it didn't quite click. I should listen again, but for now it's just a sort of generic 3.
This is one of those Legendary Indie Vibe Albums that I could never get into, probably because it sounds too much like a 00s band trying to record an 80s Don Henley album. (Also, there was one song that I skipped and then the next song started and it sounded literally exactly the same.)
I mean, man, it's the first Led Zeppelin.
This album is perfect 60s folk rock, and like so many of their contemporaries, their debut is essentially a greatest hits.
My favorite Stevie Wonder album with my favorite Stevie Wonder song ("I Believe")
I always wondered why I was drawn to Wire when I first heard them, beyond the start/stop crisp riffs and deceptively simple songwriting, and then I realized that a half dozen different genres that I love — from post-hardcore like Quicksand and Helmet to britpop like Elastica to that entire Minutemen/Black Flag scene to nearly the entirety of what would eventually become the "post punk" MTV revolution — all sprouted from its loins. This album rules, but it's also a bit longer than it needs to be. Love Wire, but don't always love a full album of Wire.
I do not like AC/DC. This album, however, is undeniable. I begrudgingly give it three stars.
I never think about Santana, and then Abraxas plays and I remember that there's really no better jammy guitar album.
I always think that Blood, Sweat & Tears are a folk rock band - like The Byrds or The Band - and then am always reminded that in fact they're actually more of a pop rock mainstay. My 16YO's show choir band played "Spinning Wheel" last year and she got to handle the bass line, so I kind of love the two singles on this album a lot now, but the rest is very of its time.
It's just a really great post punk album. Not five stars because the highs are just so much higher than the forgettable songs, but there aren't a lot of forgettable songs on here.
I should give it another chance, but I was kind of bored. Clearly from the era when indie rock exploded.
Hell yeah. It’s perfect.
It's great for what it is. Salsa with a hint of funk. I don't think I'd ever listen to it again, but I can't score it low because I dug it the entire time it was running.
Yeah, man. I still listen to this ALL THE TIME.
I appreciate the bluesy, Rolling Stones inspired sound, and I'd actively buy this if I found a used copy at a reasonable price, but in the grand scheme of things it gets lost within the rest of this genre's sound.
Reggae will never be my jam, but it's Bob Marley so it's not bad.
Kanye's a dummy, but this album is one of my five favorite hip hop albums of all time.
Of the The The albums I've heard, this is the one I forgot about.
Aw, I love this album and so does my kid. The hits are absolutely the Sound of the Indie Scene from its time, and they still hold up.
I love this album and also never listen to this album, because that's the story of Sonic Youth - you're rewarded for your patience with some utterly creative and weird music, but not in a way that makes them constant jams.
The hits are absolutely wonderful; it's not my style beyond that, but I could be swayed someday.
I mean, come on.
I still love the Kinks.
This went from "a Radiohead album I kind of like" to "one of their three best" over the past several years, for me at least. Its really good, and I still remember the entire "pay what you want" process when it came out. They really never miss.
"Eight Miles High" is really an amazing song, still. The rest was probably earth shaking at release, but as with any influential album, the original amazement fades as so many take up the sound.
One of the great albums from the Everything Alternative Is Signed To A Major Label movement.
It's fine!
This is Not My Thing ™
I, as a fellow Atom Heart Mother lover, feel bad that I've never listened to this album before. It's phenomenal.
The quintessential Stones album, and one of the few that actually lives up to the Rolling Stones hype.
There are few debut albums that prepare us for the future of rock better than this one did.
As an unabashed Pink Floyd fan, this is One Of The Great Ones.
It's fine! I get why people like it! But, it feels more like what would happen if Pulp started a T Rex cover band.
A perfect funk album, given 4 stars because funk isn't always my thing -- and yet, this one is.
A fun thing that Radiohead can do: record two nearly perfect albums at the same time and then, like, just hold off on releasing one of them for a year because why not.
Influential, and a good reminder that "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" is NOT actually a White Stripes song, but still not quite a thing I'd dive into.
Southern Rock can go to hell, usually, except for ZZ Top.
How did an album this weird become as popular as it was at the time? It's fun and good, but nothing I'd dive into more than this one time.
A nice little album.
Every time i listen to DNOTD I wonder how this became such a cultural touchpoint to the scene — it's disjointed and long and kind of a mess — until I realize that's exactly why it's great: it's the personification of the scene, a dozen pop songs hidden under the kind of cool that everyone could achieve yet no one had the guts to do.
if only the Pumpkins just kept doing this, instead of seeing the success of "Disarm" and deciding to make a bloated double album.
I'd have assumed that every Police album had sold 10 million albums, but despite how big they feel they were always still a kind of a new wave / post punk oddity on the charts. This still sounds like the biggest thing in the world, even today.
I did not think I was a Fatboy Slim guy, and then I listened to this entire thing and wondered why I never listened to them when I would write. It's: very good.
This FEELS like a singer-songwriter album from 2004, and i'm not sure that's a compliment.
Weird art-punk/new wave that's, I dunno, endearing and charming. The kind of band that's always fun to have pop up on a playlist but I wouldn't go crazy listening to entire albums.
This is one of the good ones!
This rules.
I dunno. I don't think I've ever fully GOTTEN the non-single Cream songs. Like, let's be honest, despite Clapton being a turd, those big singles have some legendary riffs. But the rest of it just sounds like generic rock.
I thought this was new to me, but I actually know a lot of these from indie/college radio. It's nearly perfect - late-era Bowie that keeps all of that glam bravado grounded with age.
This isn't bad, and I get why Jarvis and Pulp were into it - lumbering grooves that sound like proto-Pulp singalongs.
Duh.
Classic rock royalty that sounds like a sports commercial, except for one song: "Foreplay" (the intro to "Long Time") which is as close to actual prog rock as any classic rock radio gets these days. I'm all for power pop, but all the sharp edges have been sanded off. One star for ubiquity, two stars for "Foreplay."
Yeah, while this first album isn't as artistic and weird as her later stuff, it's still got some absolutely soul-bearing perfect songs. Give me "Shadowboxer" as her most perfect song. (At least: today.)
Nah.
This is very good study music. It's also very good in that it provides context for the more dynamic and interesting versions of this genre (Daft Punk, Justice) and how hard it is to make something simple sound good.
This is kind of THE Police album, huh? How weird that, on the last song of side one, they remembered they were THE POLICE and should probably mess around with some radio hits ... and then just launched into four straight all time classics.
A perfect early metal album.
It’s a classic BB King album that captures the mystique of his live shows.
I feel while some 80s new wave/pop feels like it could pop up now and still go hard, this album feels stuck, production-wise, and the rest of it doesn't really make up for that. It's not BAD, obviously, but it just doesn't do it for me.
I was surprised how good this was when it came out, and I'm still surprised that it somehow feels better and better each time.
I always struggle with this brand of rock, and I guess I can tell it’s good if you like the genre, but it’s just one single note the entire way through. The crowd pop as “Boys” begins is fun, as is the Bluesy Huey Lewis cameo.
It's hard to vote against this, an absolute masterpiece in the genre, his career, and the history of music in general. Sounds amazing, and the session players are as tight as a decades old group.
I dunno about this one: take out the vocals, and this hits that good good post punk weirdness from this era. But it's hard to take seriously with all the warbling and boop boops etc. etc.
Even though the Pavement boys are gone by this album, this still holds tight to Pavement-style slacker rock. Unfortunately this one never quite hit the way, say, Purple Mountains hit.
When Pink Floyd stopped writing 20-minute soundscapes, Tangerine Dream must have started. Title track gives good psych-era Pink Floyd vibes.
Indie folk was such an Entire Thing when this came out, and because of that — despite the fact that there are several wonderful songs on here — it feels very OF THAT TIME. I appreciate the CSNY-ness of it all, but it also played so much in the late 2000s/early 2010s that I'm burned out.